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As they carried out their gruesome task, another investigation was under way 100 miles south in Lancaster, north west England.

Burkina Faso's armed forces say they are investigating a gruesome video that purports to show military volunteers hacking apart a dead body with machetes, while gloating to the camera.

The two brothers have spent more than three decades in prison after being sentenced to life without parole in the gruesome killing of their parents.

Her gruesome death, aged just 33, has attracted visitors to her grave in the grounds of Malmesbury Abbey ever since.

Initially, police speculated the killings were a mafia hit based on the gruesome scene in the home.